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/ i fmttsfests, s*t. r. ,< The statjS general 1 1 a.v&-jtpi£e rred on lord I i:e of Waterlog, a tract of land ene of triumph, and an annual -fldjlns of Ilollind, as a testi gratitude. PARIS, October 1. tion of Missionaries at flame; of the Christian prison n6dels; by which- it appears, in the Regencies of Tunis and * liness intends appealing to the s for their ransom. (He had he American*. J * NEW-YORK, Nov. 19. r tne ship Eolus,from Cadiz, : governor of that city died a lie, Sailed, supposed to have BORDEAUX, August 29. de la Roc/te Jacqueijie is A le la Tour du Bin, comriwndant t of the Girondfr lias ordered id stall'officers, &e. of the late v of the Western Pyrennees, to day, to their respective hojnes, r ulterior orders. GENOA, August 13. Itwajcaisvery contradictory. *.V tAfcorn say—the whole tied to king of France jhi, a cousin Bonaparte, had id was determine to make the rit. „ v*. FLORENCE, Aug. 2. m Porto Longona, of the 31st ronseqqence of the advance of Grand Duke, the French gar. rajo, in the island of Elba, had •he Tuscan troops had marched sSession of all the posts of the artillery, munitions and other Piattihurg, -rhofe poufes were neceflarily destroyed in JJhe defence of that place during the war, have been indemnified by Gov i ernment ( The U. 5. schooner Firebrand, It. Cunningham, has captured a piratical schooner, under the Carthagenian flag, but supposed to be one of the Bar rata rian pirates t She had on board Bor 10 barrels of Dollars, besides many valua ble* goods! The crew were put into irons ffTThe Hon Mr. Giles, U States Senator frctn Virginia, has resigned his feat in Congress. This measure will be acceptable to his condiments, who had become difgufled with his in consistent and vacillating conduct. Barney has returned to the ‘X). O from London. He ft ill fufFcrs from the severe wound (in his thigh) which he received at the capture of Walhington. He intends to submit to the operation of extracting the ball; It is rumored, that the Franklin and Washington (hips of the line are to be forthwith equipped for service, & tocruife along our ooaft for the fafe guard of our commerce, &c. { The largest (hips of war in the world Bare now owned by the U. States ljrhe New Orleans and Chippewa, now on Lake Ont <rio, are 16 feet long er than the British (hip Lord Nelson. They are proportionally wide, but not so deep as the largest (hip in the Eng li(h Navy. Our 74’s would appear p wdong fide of these huge fps, whicn ave been named in honor ,Jf two of the pbroareft victories yet a thieve and by theTlVmericaii land forces. 1 Bofiorl Yankee. SINGULAR Al'rfD AMUSING ARTI- I CLSS. A Mr. Simon, of Chilicothe, king mendint and repairing of e very defcriptiXn, except the Yankee wooden ones, ,which can only be mended by Carpenters and cleansed by fire !” A Mr. Kerr, of Ohio, caution ing the publick, against trefpafling on his lands, concludes with fay ing—“ Let no one avail himfelf of xny personal friendlhip! the firft offence will place my best friend on the footing of the Orchard, Sheep-fold, & Corn-field Robber! the will lay him liable to be Created as I treat rambling Dogs !*’ A Jacob Hoit, of (N. H.) ad- Tertifes his wife, and declares that according to her own confefiion her children bearing names according to their parentage the firft would j • n ; 'e Called Haffy Train Murdoch, the second Sally Eaton, the third Albert Hoit , the fourth Alver Ea ton, and the fifth Elizabeth Kim ball!” If this be an true he may tvell fay, “ a good riddance of bad . rubbißi !” I ‘ FRIEND (- M'-N—"UK. ’ ■ i .-fr a>—■ ii Washington, December 22. mSmummktmmmttmm THE CLERGY OP NEW ENGLAND. (£>■ The following is in extract from an address published at Andover, (Maf fachufetts)by the" Rev. Lyman Beecker Chairman of the committee of Con necticut Charitable Sccietyi for the education or indigent pious y tying men of the ministry. - v | “ TUo poputa’ioit of Georgia, (sajfi this man of the Bible) is 452,083, while in th bjttholc state there are not more than Tb.v Ministers who 9rf oualiAf i y, preach the Gospel; leaving 448,433 of the population of {,Kai state, desti tute of such instruction as God has decided to be. proper for the salvation of men. A small portion of this destitute population of the land, enlightened by a feeble glimmering from inedu cated men | but the greater part is unorganized and in almost total darkness/.” 07 s We will not flandet the many worthy and pious ministers found in our State, by faying, there, are, among j them evert Ten Qualified to preach the ; faith received at Andover: No, but : we do believe there are many of them qualified “ with fear and trembling’’ to enter the Sanctuary, approach the Al tar, and there for themselves and for the errors of (heir people, with hands clean, and conferences void of offence, to offer to their God the sweet fine!- ling facrifica of a broken heart, and a contrite spirit, which in our opinion i% more acceptable in the fight of the Lord of Hosts, than an offering of long prayers and fediftotis sermons, f! is our earrieft wish there nevdr may be found among the ministers of this (late one so unmindful of his calling as to at tempt the illumiaation of rhefe dark regions with the Blue Light gospel taught at Hartford and Andover by the Praise God Borebones * of New Eng land. As the people of Georgia are, accor ding to the Rev. Lyman Beecker in al-, mofi total darkness , or what is worse, environed by a feeble glimmering of light, we must, for our own edification and for the faivation of our numerous readers, and also for the glofy of the Saints, moft humbly implore this Right Rev. Bather of the Round Heads £ to teach us, in his neat luminous tract, when and where the Great Almighty I am dictated that the Religion taught at Andover, was the only inftruptfon proper for the faivation of men.” This s a proceeding had in heavens chance ry of which we have not been hereto fore apprised; therefore, hearken unto us, O, thou mat* of Sin 1 Gird up now thy loins : for we will demand of thee, and answer thou us. Canst thou bend the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bonds of Orion ?—Canft thou hying forth Mozzaroth in his sea son ? or caCrft thou guide dreturu with his foits ? canst thou set the di mensions thereof in the earth ?”—The truth of the whole matter is nothing more than this, fome of the moft clay brained, knotty pa ted, brazon faced , irou teugued of ihe priesthood, flung with rage and disappointment at the failure of their last project pi “seeking the Lord” at the Hanford Convention, and of getting the Qualified and Legitimate Saints into power, have laid their heads together ln bold Conspiracy against Heaven King,” and published the a forefaid moft ur% baritable and unchrif ( rian like decision, merely for the wick ed and malicious (atisfaction of doing fome thing impiously bold, at which Sa tan might blufti. £ Thete driveling Priests firem lately to have taken up the whimsical notion, ,that their religion is like their onions and potatoes, none so good, nor 4o fifit able for a Southern market. In vhim we 4, guesd > they will find them ffires a little mi (taken; a dealer in oiions potatoes may soon find a market in Georgia, and fell his car|o ?t a hundred per cent advance, jsvhib a pedlef of the Blue Light Gospel ■puill hot he able to pat off his wires at cost and charges we behold the Ethiopian chage hst 6kin. or (he Leopard his fpots,tf)em we may eipect to fee the Blue ,Ljgm Priests of New England lay iwerWdaring conceits of theijifelvta, C 7 tlo goad,/peak the truth , hnd ibalk humbly before their Sod. * Ariongkiht./rinfla'Ain the lwmsevf parlia tlient, n thie time of (JUver Gromvvell, there was an iCUve member, rlftcli noted for hivlong prayers, senunons, and harangues. He was a leather seller, in London—tut name Praise God Borebone / (more of this andfc.) - < $ The fanatics in the time of Charles I; ig norantly applying the text, “ Ye knots that it is a shame for men to have long hair” cut tbeirs very short, i It ia-said th'£f die Queeii^nce see ing Print, 4 celebrrted Fanatic, thuF croped, enquired who tliat roun-headed man was; and froni tliis incident, the distinction became gen eral, and th,- party even catted the roun-heuds 80” Tlie president’s COMMUNICATION shalfagpear in oO % 80* Indisposition, and other misfe* tuqe&, prevented the issuing of “ ar P a * per at the usual time, in c'* , ‘ le< l uence of vhich circumflance of our worthy patrons hay* requested a difi- COniatuation of fubfeription-t-- for their fajl fivers <we thank them —To thufe whoft ftiendlhip is undeviating, we Arc row well /upplied in the necessary t.e quifit-'S </the office, and in future qur papjf yriil be issued on Fridays at ten o’obck, without fail. We presume, compared, that cur paper in point of political and miscellaneous news, will fall (hort of few printed in this State. SLANDER. KB To all to whom it may concern A {am ft (lander there is no defence. Hill cannot boast (o foul a fiend ; nor j man deplore.fo fell a foe; it (labs with ; afword—with a nod—with a (hrug— | v*h a Idok—with a smile : it is the walking in darkness, fpread ilg contagion far and wide, which the labft weary traveller cannot avoid: it is heart searching dagger of the dire afaffin : it is the poisoned arrow, whose vrbund is incurable: it is the mortal (tjirg of the deadly adder: murder is iti employment: iunocen;e its prey— atyd ruin its fporr. I Colonel Forsyth. —The following an jpdote is related of Col. Forfythe, who |as killed near the lines a f£w months liidr to the termination of the late war between the United States and Great Britain. < On a reconnoitering excurGon near Odleftown, a party of the enemy (hew e<’ themselves ; he gave orders to fire, which was immediately done,’ but ob serving ene of his men to take (belter behind a fence whiHt he loaded his piece, the Colonel peremptorily com manded the trembling soldier to come and stand behind him, while he per formed that part of his duty. It isun neceffary to add that the poor man was compelled to obey, and that it produced the intended effeft— National JEgis. A Fact worthy of record —The arri val of the U. States’ (loop Peacock, on the Slst ult from her lalt cruize against the British, and the conclafion of the War against the dates of Barbary, by the squadron tinder the command of Commodore Decatur, on the 31st of August last, have given life to the fol lowing unprecedented historical fa£f, to wit: the declaration, prosecution , and success ful termination. of one imvul tvur, before all, the cruisers of a previous naval war had come in. What nation on the globe can say this ! — lntel. DEPARTED this life, (at his plantation m Ahis county, on the 18tli inst.) —Mr. ROBERT TOMBS, in his fiftieth year. ’ AUGUST* , PRICES CURRENT. COTTON 23 1-2 -FLOUR, (new) 7 ’SUGAR 23 2S V COFFEE 30 33 * LARO 15 SALT 162 1-2 IRON T 8 CORN 68 3-4 CORN MEAL* 75 BjACON 18 3 4 WHISKEY 75 80 (£3* Tiie Greenesborough Acttdertiy will go into operation under the immediate dire&ioif, and control* ,of Mr. Archibald H. Scott, dn Tuesday the 2nd day of January next. ‘Terms as ufral* Board may be obtained in private families isl town, on. reasonable terms. JOHN BLTHUNE, Sec’ry* December'22nd, 1815. Sw. ;* \ ‘ ,U. •if p- Notice. \ J HAVE cVained the approba tion of the President, and a majority of the <fr*&ors of the Washington Ch3 <r E e Bank, for the entire collec tion Or fuefi bills as are now in cir culation. Be it known then, that in future the aforefaid bills will be received and paid in bills of the banks of this state, by me, at any time. £7 The said bills are now called in, during the publication of this notice, which will be continued for fix months. JOkN LEONARD, December 22nd, 1815. TEN DOLLARS REWARD; T iEFT me on the firft day of May last an old negro woman nam ed Betty, (under a pretext to visit fome of her children in Greefte cottnty,) ten days after (he was seen in the town dt Waftungron, which place and neighborhood {he is well acquainted, since that time I have not heard of her, and have reason to believe that (he is stolen and ta ken to fome distant part for fade, if so on information that will lead td the couvi&ion of the thief I will give a reward of ONE HUN DRED DOLLARS. Betty is an African, about forty years of age, tall and fpair made, her toes turned m when (fie walks*and has loft fome'of them* The above reward of Ten dollars, will be paid to any person that will ‘deliver her to me and all reasonable expences paid. WILLIAM STARK. December 22nd, 1815. 2w. WILL BE HI RED, On Friday the 29th instant, at the home of the fubferiber, in Wilkes county, eighteen or twenty Negroes of almost every descrip tion, until the 26th day of Decem ber, 1816—belonging to the or phans of McKennie Holdernefs, deceased.—-Terms will be made known on the day of hiring. L. McLENDON, Dec. 22nd. acting Guardian. I Notice. of the exiillng dif ficulty in making small change j and knowfag the validity of Win. I Dealing, & Co’s, small changs bills, I will take them in all cases mr faVpc THOMAS ANDERSON. December 22nd,1815. tf*